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Mar 2, 2026, 00:07:43

I am using #Thunar as my #filemanager and #Ghostty as my #terminal. One thing that bugs me is that clicking "open terminal here" in Thunar opens Ghostty in the default working directory instead. I just fixed this today by changing the command to `TERM_PROGRAM=dumb exo-open --working-directory %f --launch TerminalEmulator`, i.e., adding an environment variable `TERM_PROGRAM`. The value does not matter, but it has to have some value for exo-open to work. No idea why.

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Mar 30, 2023
A measure-theoretic formulation of statistical ensembles (part 1)
For sake of rigor and generalizability, I feel it necessary to try to have a mathematical formulation for statistical ensembles. I chose measure spaces as the underlying mathematical structure of thermal systems and tried to justify the method of statistical ensembles by deducing them from some axioms.
/physics #mathematical physics #statistical mechanics #functional analysis #measure theory #probability #long paper
Mar 25, 2023
The core of a voting system is the intersection of Pareto sets
There is a very neat relation between the core (the set of proposals that defeats every proposal) of a voting system and the Pareto sets of the voters. Suppose there is a voting system of quota $q$ , then the core is the intersection of all such sets: the Pareto set of $q$ of the voters.
/economics #voting system #preference relation #pareto efficiency
Feb 6, 2023
Relationship between the Gini coefficient and the variance
Both the Gini coefficient and the variance are measures of statistical dispersion. We are then motivated to find the relationship between them. It turns out that there is a neat mathematical relationship between them.
/economics #from zhihu #calculus #probability
Feb 4, 2023
Distinguishing all the letters in handwritten math/physics notes
Personally, I have the demand of handwriting math/physics notes, but an annoying fact about this is that I usually cannot distinguish every letter that may be possibly used well enough. In this article, I will try to settle this problem.
/misc #from zhihu #font #tex #handwriting #long paper
Feb 3, 2023
手纸本
何为手纸本?
/literature #from zhihu #literary composition #short story #chinese
Feb 3, 2023
Introducing bra–ket notation to math learners
Bra–ket notation is a good-looking notation! I am sad that it is not generally taught in math courses. Let me introduce it to you.
/math #from zhihu #quantum mechanics
Feb 2, 2023
Even solutions to bound states in an odd number of $\delta$ potential wells
We try solving the even function solutions to the time-independent Schrödinger equation for the potential $V=-\alpha\sum_{j=-n}^n\delta(x-ja)$ such that $E<0$ (bound states).
/physics #from zhihu #quantum mechanics
Feb 1, 2023
Defend our earth against aliens’ bullets!
The aliens intiated their attack to the earth! They shoot bullets with mass $m$ and speed $v$ from a far-awar planet. To defend, humans built a field $U=\alpha/r$ that can repel the bullets. What regions are safe? The answer turns out to be the interior of a circular paraboloid.
/physics #calculus #classical mechanics #kepler problem #from zhihu
Jan 18, 2023
This is what will happen after you get a haircut
Denote the length distribution of one’s hair to be $f(l,t)$ , where $l$ is hair length, and $t$ is time. Considering that each hair may be lost naturally from time to time (there is a probability of $\lambda\,\mathrm dt$ for each hair to be lost within time range from $t$ to $t+\mathrm dt$ ) and then restart growing from zero length, how will the length distribution of hair evolve with time? It turns out that we may model it with a first-order PDE.
/math #calculus #probability #pde
Jan 11, 2023
I want to invent a better way to read numbers
Reading numbers in English is a pain. I want to invent a better way to read numbers!
/language #imagination